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Women's shortlists for FIFA Ballon d'Or 2014 revealed

10/27/2014

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Who will be the FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year and the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women’s Football for 2014?

FIFA and France Football have today announced the names of the players and coaches on the shortlists for these awards (see below). The final decisions will be made, as usual, by the captains and head coaches of the women’s national teams as well as by international media representatives selected by FIFA.

The shortlists for the FIFA Ballon d’Or (best male player) and the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Men’s Football awards will be revealed in four days’ time on 28 October 2014.

The winners of all of the awards will be revealed at the FIFA Ballon d’Or as part of a televised show at the Zurich Kongresshaus on 12 January 2015, during which the FIFA FIFPro World XI, the FIFA Puskás Award (for the most beautiful goal of the year), the FIFA Presidential Award and the FIFA Fair Play Award will also be presented.



The list of ten female players has been drawn up by experts from FIFA’s Committee for Women’s Football and the FIFA Women’s World Cup™ as well as a group of experts from France Football. The list of ten coaches has been drawn up by experts from FIFA’s Football Committee and Committee for Women’s Football and the FIFA Women’s World Cup™ as well as a group of experts from France Football.

On 1 December, FIFA and France Football will announce in a live show the names of the three women and three men, as well as the three coaches for women’s football and three coaches for men’s football, who have received the most votes (without unveiling the winners). The three nominees for the FIFA Puskás Award and the FIFA FIFPro World XI shortlist for the best forwards, goalkeepers, defenders and midfielders will be unveiled in the end of November and the beginning of December.


 

Women’s shortlists for the FIFA Ballon d’Or 2014

The following ten women (in alphabetical order) are contenders for the title of FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year 2014:

Nadine Angerer (Germany), Veronica Boquete (Spain), Nilla Fischer (Sweden), Nahomi Kawasumi (Japan), Nadine Kessler (Germany), Marta (Brazil), Aya Miyama (Japan), Louisa Necib (France), Lotta Schelin (Sweden), Abby Wambach (USA).


The following ten coaches (in alphabetical order, giving first nationality and then team in brackets) are contenders for the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women’s Football 2014:

Philippe Bergeroo (France / France national team), Peter Dedevbo (Nigeria/Nigeria U-20 national team), Laura Harvey (England/Seattle Reign FC), Ralf Kellermann (Germany/VfL Wolfsburg), Maren Meinert (Germany/Germany U-20 national team), Norio Sasaki (Japan/Japan national team), Pia Sundhage (Sweden/Sweden national team), Asako Takemoto Takakura (Japan/Japan U-17 national team), Jorge Vilda (Spain/Spain U-17 national team and U-19 national team), Martina Voss-Tecklenburg (Germany/Switzerland national team).


Read the profiles of players and coaches on FIFA.com:


Players: http://www.fifa.com/ballondor/playeroftheyear/women.html

Coaches: http://www.fifa.com/ballondor/coachoftheyear/women.html


Links for mobile devices: 


Players: http://touch.fifa.com/ballondor/playeroftheyear/women.html

Coaches: http://touch.fifa.com/ballondor/coachoftheyear/women.html

If you want to follow all the actuality about the FIFA Ballon d’Or on Facebook, go to : www.facebook.com/FIFABallonDor

To discuss who YOU think should win this year’s prizes on Twitter, use the hashtag #BallonDOr


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